. We use a microfounded New Keynesian model of a monetary union which incorporates persistence in inflation, and examine … non-cooperative interactions of fiscal and monetary authorities. We find that particularly when inflation is persistent …

experienced relatively high inflation and a market depreciation of their currency. Their monetary systems have gone through …

compares price inflation before the crisis with the necessary and actual price cuts that have taken place since the outbreak of … the crisis, predicting a decade of stagnation for the south and inflation for the north. Keynesian demand policy is …

there is a significant backward looking element in inflation behaviour. This cyclical instability can be mitigated if fiscal … policy in each member country reacts to inflation differences, but it can be aggravated if fiscal feedback on debt is too …

compares price inflation before the crisis with the necessary and actual price cuts that have taken place since the outbreak of … the crisis, predicting a decade of stagnation for the south and inflation for the north. Keynesian demand policy is … steered to uses they are keen to avoid. -- competitiveness ; inflation ; realignment ; Keynesian policy …

compares price inflation before the crisis with the necessary and actual price cuts that have taken place since the outbreak of … the crisis, predicting a decade of stagnation for the south and inflation for the north. Keynesian demand policy is …

determinant of the monetary transmission mechanism, namely the degree of persistence characterising the inflation process. The … types of staggered contracts specifications which induce quite different degrees of inflation persistence. The paper shows … that inflation persistence is high when uncertainty about the prevailing degree of inflation persistence is pervasive …

euro area and Japanese inflation dynamics are best explained by Taylor-style contracts, while Buiter …-Jewitt/Fuhrer-Moore contracts perform somewhat better in fitting U.S. inflation dynamics. We are unable to fit Calvo-style contracts to inflation … backward-looking element. The completed model matches inflation and output dynamics in the United States, the euro area and …

that a fast catch-up process within a rigid macroeconomic framework is very likely to be accompanied by catch-up inflation … the likely range of the expected catch-up inflation in the new EU members and acceding countries and discusses some of the …